One of the makers
Radhika Agarwal
Painting and appliqué
A self-taught painter and homemaker who always found joy in painting, but had nowhere to take it — until she finally found a canvas beyond her own four walls.
A self-taught painter and homemaker who always found joy in painting, but had nowhere to take it — until she finally found a canvas beyond her own four walls.
Painting and appliqué is worked entirely by hand, motif by motif, before anything is joined to the cloth. It cannot be rushed and it cannot be machined — which is why every piece differs slightly from the last.
This is a description of the technique, not of Radhika. How she came to it, and what she would say about it, is hers to tell.
Her success, our strength.Narimade
Each piece carries the name of the woman whose hands finished it.
